The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

Current Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 733-745.e2

  Puttick, Mark N ^a,b   Morris, Jennifer L ^a,c   Williams, Tom A ^a   Cox, Cymon J ^d   Edwards, Dianne ^c   Kenrick, Paul ^b   Pressel, Silvia ^b   Wellman, Charles H ^e   Schneider, Harald ^b,f   Pisani, Davide ^a,b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bryophyta; gene trees; land plants; phylogeny; plants; Setaphyta; Tracheophyta

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85041996392     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063     Document Type: Article

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